<ul>
<li>you already know most of Calculus when you’re in pre-calc 
</li>
<li>when your teacher turns to you for help because you have already studied ahead.</li>
</ul>
<p>^^That’s me…</p>
<p>-You have to sneak buying books but your parents get excited when you go to a party.
-You have to keep books under your bed… because there’s no room left on your shelf.
-When the Calc teacher needs help programming his calculator he tracks you down.
-You solidified your geekiness freshmen year by calculating the moles of each element in the human body.
-You can recite the entire greek alphabet faster than the Latin-Based
-The list of things you find beautiful contains more mathematical concepts and compounds than members of the opposite gender.
-You’ve taken a class with only one other person in it.
-Your hatred of the Quadratic Formula is widely known (The Completing the square rule is far more elegant).
-You wish you could stay in Calc so you wouldn’t have to go to English.
-You only pass English because you already knew all the vocab words anyways and got tons of bonus on those tests.
-You teach your tech teacher various tricks in the new software.
-You build various tools for your Broadcast class just to make your life easier.
-People ask you who your apprentice is so they can take advantage of their skill when you graduate.
-You actually have an apprentice.
-Two really.
-Your mother sounds dejected when you call her to say you’re on your way home from a concert and tell her “no, there were no girls with us”.
-You play with your new graphing calculator for DAYS.
-You’ve helped a friend graph a duck.
-And a squirrel…
-You were the last of 2 people in the school to have a certain teacher because you took the class a year earlier than everyone else.
-You own two of the same book because someone got you one as a gift but you already had it.
-You have a moleskin you use to remember things and refer to it as your “external harddrive”.
-You usually carry a multitool and electrical tape wherever you go.
-You actually own a calculator watch.</p>
<p>Yes I have experienced all these things…</p>
<ul>
<li>you are utterly shocked when you find out no one in your class actually did the history reading all year</li>
<li>you enjoy reading your textbooks</li>
<li>getting your new textbooks is like your birthday</li>
<li>you can’t watch Pirates of the Caribean because you can’t get past the anachronisms.</li>
<li>you consider Elvish your second/third/etc language</li>
<li>you can’t list ten songs on the top 50 right now, but CAN list all spells from Harry Potter</li>
<li>you have added Harry Potter, Star Wars and LOTR names/words/places to Word’s dictionary</li>
</ul>
<p>:P</p>
<p>Oh and you regularly have nightmares that school ISN’T over, and you have a massive project due tomorrow, then wake up and get on your computer until you realize it is July.</p>
<p>when you wish school was year round
when your teacher asks for help grading papers</p>
<ul>
<li>when you become a fan of Physics on facebook</li>
<li>you own something that has a mathematical symbol on it (I have a pi necklace) :D</li>
</ul>
<p>You enjoy going to Math and/or Science class.</p>
<p>At least that’s how it is in my school.</p>
<ul>
<li>You are so anticipatory about learning material from your next year textbook that you get a copy early or borrow one from the library
<ul>
<li>You have your library card number memorized</li>
<li>You actually volunteered at your school for volunteer hours during the summer</li>
<li>You have a Galileo’s thermometer</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You are on CC…</li>
</ul>
<p>When you post in this thread.</p>
<p>Oops. Guess I dug myself a grave there…</p>
<p>-you have a CC account
-you join geeky groups on facebook …ehem CC
-you spend two or more hours trying to figure out the answer to a physics problem, and if you can’t solve it, you simply can’t go to sleep and go insane.
-books are your favorite presents
-you don’t waste your summers and actually do something productive</p>
<p>~ You’ve gotten to the point where you can’t bear to do anything unproductive even though you desperately want to. So now you carry flashcards with you everywhere. </p>
<p>But most of the time I don’t use them…it’s the thought that counts :)</p>
<p>~ You go to a college/SAT prep place and they hand you a list of summer programs with acronyms designed to intimidate you (expected reaction: omg! I had no idea these even existed!). You immediately recognize almost all of them (the ones you don’t know aren’t worth knowing anyways) and know their names/location/prestige/approximate deadlines. And when your mom asks a question, the lady stutters and doesn’t know what SSP stands for, so you naturally answer with it’s prestige/name/location. Both women are bewildered. (My mom should have seen it coming though…haha)</p>
<p>…The list started out with, "Apply to COMPETITIVE summer programs such as COSMOS, CTY, ATDP, EPGY, YSP, ISP, CCIS, SSP…etc. It didn’t even have RSI or MITES etc…
They were trying to get me to buy this college plan where they would plan my summers and activities…I can imagine it now. Three whole summers at CTY :]</p>
<p>I politely declined.</p>
<p>~When you go to college/SAT prep places and can basically predict what the college counselor is going to say next. And yet you still go anyways…because none of your friends are academically oriented and you like to talk about college occasionally :]</p>
<p>~When you listen to college counselors talk, and you actually have to make a conscious effort to not say anything that would make them feel uncomfortable (oh…so I see…you already knew that…um…okay…so tell me again what you said? I need to write that down…).</p>
<ul>
<li><p>when you see your SAT score report online, scream, print it out, and frame the printout of your scores</p></li>
<li><p>when your senior pics involve you and your books</p></li>
<li><p>when your teachers don’t let you answer questions in class anymore</p></li>
</ul>
<p>^ the first one… seriously? aha</p>
<p>^yepp =] it’s actually hanging up in my room</p>
<p>actually i put in in my binder at first (one of those clear ones) so that other people could see</p>
<p>lol. I’d make so many more enemies doing that, even with my score now (1860). Our average SAT is around the 1500 national average. There’s less than 60 of us. How’d you do?</p>
<p>lol</p>
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<p>^that applies to me</p>
<p>when you realize that, inlike most of the posters on this thread, you are an english/history nerd 9as opposed to a math/science nerd)</p>
<p>…when you listen to cheesy german music to get marching band songs out of your head.</p>
<p>…when you are excited for marching band, so that you can dance to zombie nation with a hundred other nerds.</p>
<p>…when you tell your mom you are editing pictures, not on a forum to discuss colleges.</p>
<p>wow, this makes me sound terribly nerdy!</p>
<p>It’s good to know I’m NOT a nerd.</p>